Some time ago, I swept through almost all the recent zombie movies on the market. After reading it, I always want to write something.
Where did the conversation start?
Let’s start with a conversation I had with my college roommate. My roommate was very obsessed with zombie movies during college. I asked him why he liked the subject matter, and he said: Because this may become a reality.
How did zombies appear? Each movie basically maintains the same setting: due to chemical leakage or virus mutation, some humans were infected at first, and then human zombies began to gnaw at the same kind, and the bitten people were infected, and also become a zombie. Thus, the disaster radiated like a blowout.
I don't think such a scenario is likely to become a reality. A certain virus will kill people and then resurrect them. The resurrected living dead will become bloodthirsty, and the virus will spread through bites. All these factors are combined, how can it be so easy.
The earliest zombie movies were made in the 1930s. During the industrial revolution and the rapid development of western science and technology, some people stood up to reflect on science. After the First World War, this trend of thought became even more prosperous. People even had a fear of science, and some Western religious ideas were added, so there was a long-lasting movie theme of zombies. People's fear of zombies reflects human's fear of science.
After World War II, human society ushered in the third technological revolution, and zombie movies followed in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
After the millennium, zombie movies are not easy to introduce new ones, so directors have borrowed the setting of zombies to discuss some things about human nature.
I'm not going to talk about technology today, let's talk about human nature.
Returning to the setting of zombies, zombies are irrational, and zombies are very bloodthirsty. In the face of zombies, survivors have only three choices: escape, die, or become the same kind.
This is simply mass violence.
Having seen Germany, Japan during World War II, and Wenge, you must not be unfamiliar with mass violence.
There are still a large number of German fans and Mao Zuo in China. Aside from these people, the remaining people with basically normal views can realize that in the political and cultural environment at that time, individuals were actually swept away by groups. People commit many evil deeds unconsciously.
Some people are lucky enough to stay away from the center of the vortex. Some people are unwilling to compromise in it, or survive, or make their own decisions. More people, chanting slogans, joined the wave.
Although these histories are far from now, the virus still resides in the human body, waiting to mutate all the time. We are not far from mass violence. Let me talk about my childhood experiences.
In 2002, I was 10 years old. (The classic zombie movie "28 Days Changed" was released this year)
I was a member of the school table tennis at the time. The story happened on a Saturday, when a team member was sick and underwent surgery and was recuperating at home. Then everyone agreed to visit her at noon, and then went back to school for training in the afternoon after visiting.
At that time, the training was very hard, 4 hours of training a day, almost all year round, and everyone was very critical of the coach. When they got together at noon, everyone started to vomit, and I didn't expect it to get out of hand. The team members became emotional and decided to stop training in the afternoon.
The coach and each parent talked on the phone, and finally the parents came forward to persuade their children, and finally the parents sent the children to the school arena.
What happened after I got to school was beyond my comprehension at the time.
The coach asked each player to stand on a ping-pong table, spread out everyone, handed out a pen and paper, and asked everyone to write down who led the strike.
In fact, I didn't take the lead, I wrote it truthfully. The coach slapped me and told me to rewrite. I cried and wrote Mr. A's name. Mr. A's ball skills are very good, but he is a bit thorny. It is easy to believe that coach A is written. I thought so at the time.
In the end, Mr. A was severely beaten by the coach. It can be seen that most of them are written as A. A is innocent, but an ideal scapegoat.
Every time I recall this incident, my palms are full of cold sweat. I have encountered such a thing many times, but that is the only time I have become a water droplet in a wave, a hero in a corpse group, and a key link in evil deeds.
At that time, there was Mr. B, who was against Mr. A, but he refused to write anyone's name, and was beaten badly by the coach in the end. I admire him so much, I even wish it was me who was beaten.
My roommate said: That scenario could become a reality. But I feel that this is the reality, it will happen now, it will happen around us, blood dripping.
We get bitten, we get infected, and we bite others. Cowardice makes us prefer to hide in the majority, and when that survivor takes a lot of courage, most of us don't have that courage.
In Bloodthirsty Dawn, humans contract a strange disease and become vampires, who must suck human blood to survive. When the number of vampires exceeds that of humans, the balance of power is tilted, and vampires establish a regime and keep humans in captivity. When the protagonist discovers the method of treatment, no one is willing to take the initiative to accept the treatment, because once he is cured, he will fall from the ruling class to the ruled class.
In "Silent Hill", people slandered a little girl as a witch because of fear, and burned the little girl alive in the name of faith.
These two movies are not strictly zombie movies, but the themes are more prominent, which aroused my thoughts on this article.
When we watch zombie movies, we always fantasize that we are the protagonist, shouldering the mission of saving the common people, and confronting the zombies with a heroic attitude. But in reality, with the hope that we are survivors, we often become zombies.
When we wear the mask of zombies to do evil, it seems that the evil has nothing to do with us. But when we face ourselves, can we deceive our hearts? Won't your palms sweat like me?
I don't know how hard it is to survive a zombie horde, but I know how hard it is to be 10 years old against adults.
I think when I decided to be like Mr. B, I had the courage and strength to face it all.
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